{"product_id":"stories-and-sketches-what-people-are-doing","title":"Stories and Sketches: What People Are Doing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The Double Book Binding. Patented in the United States April 3, 1923. Patented in great Britain 1923, No. 213,767.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOblong 8vo, (32)pp printed pages staplebound on the usual left side, and 32 leaves of tracing paper staple-bound to a flap on the right side. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Tinted Japanese paper reinforcing the spine, else VG+. Unused. 3 in OCLC (Columbia Teacher's College, Nat'l Lib. Education, Clark U).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe thoughtfulness of the book's design is evident in the directions printed inside the front wrap, explaining how the book can be used to teach geography, language arts, manual skills, and provide the teacher \"an opportunity for the study of the mental ability of the child and the working of his mind.\" Each lesson has a paragraph with blanks for the child to fill in orally, written on the page, or spelled out with tiles in the classroom. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe novel binding allows individual leaves of tracing paper to lay on top of the outline images in the text for the child to trace while keeping them bound together as a record of the student's work. Enough paper is provided to make 2 tracings of each image, which can also be colored in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA progressive era educational book that ties in the student's environment and explains the processes behind common objects like textiles and shoes. The \"Stories and Sketches\" series also included \u003cem\u003eChildren of Other Lands \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Stories of Our Earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allen, Nellie B.; Edward K. Robinson; Marguerite Davis (illus.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46423515496598,"sku":"Q2423","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-2_78840eb1-5b96-4bd3-8b09-26a0f2275c94.jpg?v=1781907707","url":"https:\/\/alsobooksbooks.com\/products\/stories-and-sketches-what-people-are-doing","provider":"Haec City \/ Also Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}